Windshield



' May l2, 1925.

O. H. SANDGREN wINDSHIELD Filed' peo; 2o, 1923 6 INFM/TOR By 19V/Www ATTORNEY patented May 12, 1925.

UNI-'ren lSTATES onor Hamann salarissen, or KANSAS oI'rY, MISSOURI.

WINDsHIELD.

Application led December' 20, 1923. Serial No. 681,858.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OLor HELMER SAND- GREN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State ofMissouri, 'have invented certain new and useful Improvements inlVindshields; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art'to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had'to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures or' referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to means for pivoting wind shields to motorvehicles, and it is particularly designed asan attachment for the lowerwind shield ot a Ford car such as is disclosed by the 1924 models ofcars made by the Ford Motor Company of Detroit,

Michigan. The cars now made by the Ford Motor Company have the bottomwind shield rigid in the frame. The frame includes two side standardswith groovesand the glass sets in the grooves so that it cannot beturned or swung, theresult being that it is impossible to get adequateventilation` into the front of the car.

My invention contemplates an attachment $0 which will lit on the presentwind shield frame and carry the glass in a pivoted manner, theattachment being so constructed that it may be applied to the windshield frame without the necessity of reconstruct-` ing any of the`parts `otherthan removing the present glass panel constituting thelower wind shield.

The novel construction of the invention will be understood by referenceto the following description in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the front oi' a motorvehicle constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one end vof the attachment. i

Fig. 3 is a sect-ional View through one ot the side posts of the windshield frame.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view through the pivot connection of theattachment and through one of the side posts of the wind shield frame,and

Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view through one oi the side posts of thewind shield frame and through the attachment, the section being takenabove the pivot connection.

The wind shield frame 1 is of `usual construction fastened to the body 2in the usual way and carrying the usual wind shield panel 3. The framehas two side bars 4 and 5 which are tubular in cross section, each sideb'ar having a groove 6 which ordinarily receives the glass window panel.In carry ing out my invention, the panel is removed from the grooves 6and it is placed in a panel frame 7 having side bars 8 and 9 and a lower`longitudinal bar 10 tov which is preterably secured a handle 11. Thereis a groove 12'eXtending along the inner edge of the member 8 along' theinner edge 'of thev member 9 and along the inner edge of the member 10to receive theglass panel 13 in an appropriate manner, the panel being`held against rattling by a packing 13.

The glass panel 13 is held in place by the cap members 14 and 15 whichmay be secured to the ends of the members 8 and 9. The members 8 and 9are pivoted to spring' clamps 16 and 17. Each clamp consists of aconcavo-convex bar pivoted intermediate itsv ends as at 18 (Fig. 2) toone of the side bars of the panel frame. The clamp on each side of itspivot is sprung by bowing the clamp and inasmuch as the clamp is concaveon its outer face, it will lit over the cylindrical post 4 or' 5 astherase may be and due to the fact that it is bowed it will firmly gripthe post against rattling, thereby forming a snapson-braclret for thewind shield panel frame consisting ot the menibers 8, 9 and 10. y j

In order to hold the panel in any adjusted pivoted position, I provide asegmental slotted member 19 on each side member '8 and 9, there being aheaded adjusting bolt- 90 20 passing through the slot `and through a lug21 rigid on the snap-on-bracket, the end of the b'olt receiving a thumbnut 22 so i that the panel can be held in Aany adjusted position as willbe obvious by reference to 100* the drawing. j

The method of adjusting the panel is not new `as this adjustment hasbeen previously used on other devices, but the constructionv soy lof theattachment whereby the present'rigid 105 glass panel may be removed andan' adjustable wind shield be substituted in a convenient manner -iswhat constitutes my' invention and I am not aware of any deviceyprovided with a snap-on or yielding bracket U0 which muy be readily fitover the two side posts of the Wind shield frame in the man,- nerdisclosed in my description and drawings.

What I claim and desire to Secure by Letters-Patent is: l

In combination with a Wind shield frame,

having two side, posts7 of a glass panel freine, and yieldingconoavofoonvex bracket arifns pivoted-to the panel frame, the concave 1Uportions engaging the posts.

In testimony whereof Inix my signature. i

OLOF HELMER SANDGRPM

